Chapter 3858

The young maid who disappeared from the Kindel family was the personal maid of the family's youngest daughter, Wang Hou Diana's niece, and the cousin of princesses like Leixia. She disappeared during her vacation a week ago. The maid's family did not see her go home. She seemed to have disappeared immediately after leaving the Duke's manor.

"Although there were not many clues left to Xia De at the time, Xia De still relied on his own intelligence to start with the interpersonal relationships of the maid in his uncle's house, investigate her daily interpersonal interactions and daily itinerary, and analyze various factors that might have interests with her or lead to her disappearance or even death."

"Subsequently, Xia De went to investigate the maid's room, searched her personal belongings, and through careful reasoning and bold assumptions, successfully ruled out the possibility that the missing person might be involved in a spy case."

"Finally, combining all the clues above for reasoning, Xia De relied on the bloodstains on the handkerchief that the maid used to wipe her injured finger, and used 【Blood Echo】 to find..."

"Wait a minute!"

The investigation of the case started on Monday, and the time now has reached Saturday evening, the 28th day of the Month of Wind, and this day also happens to be another "Red Butterfly Day" after the Battle of Fate. The last ray of dusk had disappeared on the Fatumunster snow mountain. In the courtyard of the snow mountain hall, Luweiya, who was preparing to eat barbecue around the campfire, interrupted Leixia's words.

Luweiya only returned to Tobesk this morning. Her training for more than half a month was finally over. So the princess and the writer took such precious Saturday time to spend with everyone, which can be considered as celebrating Luweiya's return.

"Leixia, you just said that Xia De was investigating and reasoning, but in the end, he still relied on miracles to find people?"

Luweiya asked, Leixia nodded proudly sitting by the campfire:

"At least that's how Xia De is described in the manuscript Dorothy is writing. Famous Detective Hamilton discovered the only clue by wisdom without any clues."

Winnie smiled and stood by the charcoal stove on the side preparing barbecue for everyone. Ellie raised her hand:

"Continue listening to the story!"

Amelia and Little Liana beside Ellie obviously thought so too, so Leixia continued to tell with a smile in front of the campfire:

"Subsequently, Xia De tried to find the traces of the missing maid by relying on 【Blood Echo】. Although too much time had passed, fortunately, after Xia De was promoted to a high ring, 【Blood Echo】 could also see blurred and incoherent blood-colored light and shadow for objects over 48 hours."

"He spent two more days in the city, and finally went deep into the city sewer. Relying on the sewer map given by a friend before, he finally found the road leading to the basement of another Viscount's mansion in the south of the city from the alley next to the Duke's manor."

Amelia held her face and asked curiously:

"Could it be that the maid's disappearance is because of elopement? Books are all written like this."

The little elf with pointed ears turned a branch into a fallen tree trunk. At this moment, she was sitting on that tree trunk with two little unicorns and Ajilina. The little princess held an apple and shook her head:

"Of course not, this story is much more exciting than elopement... Ellie, do you want to eat this apple? But Xia De said that before he and Ms. Reinhardt come back, he can't give you too many apples... Well, you can only take one bite... You... Forget it, remember to hide the apple core."

Leixia continued to tell Luweiya and the girls studying at the Academy:

"In the Viscount's mansion, Xia De discovered clues about arms smuggling. He thought the maid's disappearance was related to arms smuggling, but he took those materials to me before closing the case. You know I am responsible for military logistics now, but I sent someone to investigate, and arms smuggling does exist, but it has nothing to do with the missing maid."

"And the owner of the Viscount's mansion connected by the sewer also didn't know anything about the missing maid. It seems that the maid's disappearance incident just passed through his basement and has nothing to do with his family's affairs."

"So he was found to be smuggling arms, completely implicated by Xia De's investigation of the case."

Dorothy summarized, Leixia nodded:

"Later, Xia De continued to investigate after many twists and turns, and the boring process in the middle was omitted. In short, for convenience, he found Ms. Reinhardt, who was slightly free, to be a detective assistant from Wednesday afternoon, and visited various places in the city."

"They investigated on the spot in the slums together, mixed in illegal Luo De card casinos together, and chased a gang of gangsters selling prohibited drugs at night together, but unfortunately, the other party only provided a fake identity for the missing maid."

"Finally, yesterday, which was Friday night, Xia De invited Ms. Reinhardt to attend a noble masquerade, and finally discovered the missing maid at the dance."

Leixia took the red wine glass handed by Dorothy with a smile, shook it gently in her hand, and the red wine rippled in the glass, shining with intoxicating light:

"Now reveal the answer—even my mother doesn't know that the missing maid is my uncle's illegitimate daughter, and also my cousin. She didn't know her identity since she was a child, was adopted by a commoner in Tobesk, and was arranged to enter the Duke's manor a few years ago to live with my youngest cousin."

"Some time ago, she was told her identity by someone with a heart. Under that person's instigation, she wanted to escape her current life and my uncle's control, so she would disappear voluntarily."

"Who instigated her?"

Stella asked curiously, she liked stories with such twists and turns.

"It's funny to say, it's my cousin, that is, the half-brother of the missing maid cousin. He... fell in love with this maid cousin, but knew that as long as she stayed at home, she would definitely not be with him."

"So he let his men instigate this maid cousin to disappear, wanting to use this to let this maid cousin live in a place he arranged first, and then deepen the relationship little by little."

Although this was a scandal of her mother's family, Leixia did not avoid anything. The girls listening to the story all gasped, obviously not expecting the truth of the story to be like this. However, Ellie and Little Liana had no reaction. The former was staring at the sliced apple being strung on a bamboo stick by Winnie, and the latter was tilting her head and looking at the snow mountain while listening to the story.

"When Xia De gave the investigation report to mother, mother was furious. From childhood to adulthood, I have never seen mother so angry."

Leixia sighed, and Ajilina also nodded with lingering fear:

"Mother told uncle the investigation results of Xia De. This morning, cousin's leg was broken by uncle, and that maid cousin was sent to the city where the Kindel family's old home is located to live. Mother even ignored father's obstruction and called uncle to her face and scolded him, saying that as a Duke, he couldn't even control his family members at such a critical moment in the kingdom, and actually caused such a scandal."

"The pile of incidents such as arms smuggling, gang illegal crimes, underground Luo De card casinos, etc., that Xia De discovered during the investigation were actually deliberately implicated by that cousin to cover up the cousin's whereabouts. Although mother didn't say it, cousin could have such great energy, I am afraid it is also related to uncle's usual failure to restrain his family's behavior."

Ajilina took the plate handed by Winnie on the side and placed it on her lap. Luweiya nodded, thought for a while and asked again:

"So that's how it is. But since it involves the scandal of the Wang Hou's family, Xia De's investigation cannot be made public, right?"

Leixia shook her head:

"The truth cannot be made public, but Xia De's investigation can be made public. After all, the movement he made this week was really too big. Although to cover up this scandal, some other things can be concocted, but the war is in front of us, and father has no mind to manage this matter."

"So Xia De's investigation entrustment was closed with the result of 'the missing maid is a Southern spy'. Most people are convinced by such a conclusion."

Stella couldn't help but sigh:

"The stories in big cities are really rich and colorful. Teacher also told me about things in Tobesk with Xia De these two days. I really didn't expect the truth to be like this... But when will Teacher and Xia De come back?"

Luweiya calculated the time:

"After we finished the group meeting in the afternoon, Xia De said he had to go to the Ridewich field to collect the bonus. Although he pulled Claire, they shouldn't go to do other things, and they should be back soon."

Collecting the bonus does not need others to accompany. The girls all know that this is just an excuse Xia De deliberately made to be alone with Claire.

He originally just promised to invite Claire to sit at home, but now he has had a quite wonderful city adventure with her. Now that the adventure is coming to an end, of course, a separate "farewell" is needed, so everyone waited patiently here.

However, Xia De didn't let everyone wait too long. While the girls and Amelia were talking about Ellie's recent school life, and the little elf with pointed ears was saying happily that sometimes the unicorn girls who turned into human form were willing to go to her bedroom to stay overnight, and everyone held a pajama party, Xia De came back holding Claire's hand.

The witch with beautiful platinum long hair still had a red face, but now the sun had completely set, this was definitely not the afterglow of the sunset, so everyone could be sure what they had done before.

Stella put down the dinner plate and got up to greet her teacher, then went to help Winnie. The maid smiled and blinked at Xia De, then served his portion of food.

Under the starry sky, the lively barbecue party in the courtyard of the snow mountain hall continued. Claire and Luweiya sat on both sides of Xia De. Leixia listened to Amelia telling the story of the little unicorns, Dorothy stood up to help Stella and Winnie, and smiled and praised Winnie for managing No. 6 St. Deran Square in an orderly manner recently.